Word: canadas
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...receded. Bowhead whales moved in from Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still not clear, the Dorset disappeared. As with most environmental changes, the warming of northern Canada set in motion a series of complex, interrelated events that produced winners and losers...
...winners in Canada's Arctic? When the Northwest Passage finally clears enough to be a viable shipping route--probably in the next 50 years--a whole range of trade opportunities will come with it. So will resources, as fossil-fuel deposits in the ocean floor become more accessible. ArcticNet researchers are already mapping out the undersea terrain with sonar and analyzing the geopolitical implications of finding the long-sought Arctic Grail. Their proposals should help the government deal with an international legal dispute already under way: whether the Northwest Passage is within Canadian waters, subject to domestic security and environmental...
...party-wide revolt over the ports deal amply demonstrated. In the face of the Democrats' "rubber stamp" charges, G.O.P. lawmakers are distancing themselves on other issues as well. In Kentucky, Representative Anne Northup, generally a staunch Bush backer, notes that she strongly supports reimporting cheaper drugs from Canada. In Missouri, Senator Jim Talent emphasizes his successful push for an amendment to last year's energy bill that requires 7.5 billion gallons of renewable energy to be in the nation's fuel pipeline by 2012. Boasts Talent adviser Lloyd Smith: "He took on the Bush Administration and the oil companies...
...conducting seat-of-the-pants investigations about highly sensitive matters for their ministers. Like most people touched by the scandal that saw almost $A300 million in kickbacks diverted from AWB to Saddam, Australian bureaucrats trusted the company's executives - and ignored the allegations made by those countries (such as Canada) who wanted a larger slice of Iraq's wheat purchases as well as a more favorable free-trade deal...
...they have gained since Saddam's overthrow, and the Sunnis refuse to accept minority status in the new government. If dissolving the former Soviet empire and breaking up its satellite states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia made sense, why doesn't separation make sense for Iraq? Bob Mason St. Albert, Canada...